Small rant today. Sitting at work, not too much going on… I decide “hey, let’s install Visual Studio to my laptop so that maybe I will eventually get some incentive to program again…” Fine and dandy thing to do. Okay! So, I start the installation process from my virtual cds that I keep around and wait… and wait… disk 2…. more waiting… progress bar is at 100% now… more waiting… “Executing action: HxMerge_VSCC_v80″…. wait…. wait… 2 hours later… still waiting. This is the worst step in installing! It has no progress bar and you never know when it’s done. It take 5-10 minutes btw, so if you are at the half hour mark you might want to call it quits. You can’t tell whether it is still working or crashed… mine crashed. Well, that was a waste of time. Now task manager won’t even come up. Damn Vista lol, usually I have no trouble, but I am convinced they are purposefully trying to piss me off today. I gave my laptop a hard reboot and tried again… success! I feel accomplished… I successfully installed something with an autoinstaller. Yay!
Archive for September, 2008
I think I’m going to be creating a new area of my site dedicated to my GeoCaching experiences. I would like to keep a log of all my caches found and the stories that went with them. Think of it as kind of a travellers diary. If you don’t know what Geocaching is you should probably check out their site (http://www.geocaching.com/). It is sort of a high tech way to play needle in the haystack. You don’t need a GPS unit like it says, just google maps. Anyway, back to the original point. I want to have a way to share all of my experiences, so I am going to keep track of them and tell the story of the hunt after each one. Even if it is only for my entertainment, it sounds fun. I would like to keep track of all the ones I fine, and then I will be able to write what I found inside and whatnot. So, keep an eye out on KI for this new area. Should be starting soon (next week actually, can’t work on much this week).
I think I’m going to start updating randomly on Twitter. Why? Nothing better to do lol. http://twitter.com/ChadwYn I get bored easily. Seems interesting though, usually I use it just to follow Megatokyo comic posts, but now I will actually (at least for a few days) be using it to update about my life. If any of you get bored feel free to stalk me on it.
P.S. I played Apples to Apples last night at a dorm party and it was pretty glorious. I also met a girlie that was rather interesting. We will see how that goes. More updates later.
Lately, I haven’t felt like doing much. My house is a mess and could easily require several hours of cleaning. My yard is almost two feet tall now. My car has water spots because (I do still wash it, because it is my love) I was too lazy to dry it. Nothing at work gets done. I go right home, and watch movies all day… I haven’t even gone grocery shopping, so I’m probably going to starve to death soon. I’ve been in his routine before, and there is a simple explanation for it. A good friend of mine, who was once a girlfriend of mine, recently returned after being gone all summer. And for some reason, when I’m with her… which seems like all time, well is all the time… I can’t get anything else done, I can’t even thing about anything else. I get so incredibly lazy. This happened before for several months while we were dating. And I HATE! not being productive. Absolutely can not stand the idea. It makes me feel like I have been wasting my life. I need to accomplish something and fast. I think I will work on that tonight. I’ll let you know how that goes in a few day. Just thought I would come on here and rant for a bit.